Quotes from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Life ... is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“...Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between
The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Wherever in your sightless substances
You wait on nature’s mischief! Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry "Hold, hold!”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“All causes shall give way: I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“O, full of scorpions is my mind!”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor?

Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest.

Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart.

Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“So fair and foul a day I have not seen.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet Grace must still look so.”
― William Shakespeare, quote from Macbeth (Wordsworth Classics)

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“- Фин. Мистър Бог не ни обича - тук се поколеба.- Не ни обича, разбираш ли? Само хората могат да обичат. Аз обичам Боси, но тя мен не. Аз обичам дребосъците, но те мен не. Аз те обичам Фин. И ти ме обичаш. Това беше удар под кръста. По дяволите, помислих си. Защо трябваше това да се случи? Сега е загубила доверието си, сигурността. Но се лъжех. Нищо не беше загубено. Анна вървеше с увереността на сомнамбул по въже.
- Той не ме обича като теб, а другояче, милиони пъти по-голямо е.
Явно бях помръднал. Тя се протегна, седна на петите си и се ухили. После се примъкна по-близо до мен. Дали знаеше за онази мъничка болка, която ме беше докоснала? С точността на хирург разряза раната, причинена ми от една искрица ненужна ревност.
- Фин, ти ме обичаш повече от всеки друг. И аз те обичам повече от всеки друг. Но с Мистър Бог е различно. Виждаш ли, Фин, хората обичат отвън навътре и могат да целуват отвън. Мистър Бог обаче те обича отвътре и може там да те целува. Затова е различно. Мистър Бог не е като нас. Само ние сме малко като него. Но не много. Анна беше превърнала оловото в злато. Всички мъдри дефиниции на понятието "Бог" бяха напълно излишни. Милосърдието, любовта и справедливостта бяха само патерици, с които си служехме, за да опишем неописуемото. Анна нямаше нужда от тях.
- Виждаш ли, Фин, Мистър Бог е различен, защото може да довършва нещата, а ние не можем. Аз изобщо никога не мога да престана да те обичам. Ще съм умряла милиони години, преди да престана да те обичам. Но Мистър Бог може да престане, когато поиска, разбираш ли? Затова е различен.
Доста силен удар ми беше нанесла. Първо трябваше да обмисля всичко това, но Анна не ми спести нищо и не ми даде време. Просто продължи да ме обстрелва с тежката артилерия.
- Фин, защо хората правят войни и се убиват?
Простенах, започнах да заеквам. Беше малко множко наведнъж...
- Фин, как се казва, когато искам да кажа, че мисля различно от теб?
Няколко минути изпробвахме различни думи, докато най-накрая открихме тази, която търсеше: мнение.
- Фин, това е разликата. всичко хора имат различни мнения, само Мистър Бог не. Той има всички мнения наведнъж.
В този миг имах едно единствено желание: да се махна от нея, да се махна оттук. Една дълга разходка би свършила работа. Какво искаше това дете, какво беше направила? Бог можеше да довършва нещата, аз не. Е, добре, но какво означаваше всичко това? Струваше ми се, сякаш беше освободила идеята "Бог" от нейните ограничения. Неговото царство беше вечността и Анна разбираше всичко това. Хората имаха ограничен брой мнения, но Бог застъпваше всичките мнения и затова всяко едно от тях беше точно толкова правилно, колкото и всички останали. Дали искаше да каже това? Попитах я и тя доволно кимна. След това избухна в смях.
- Хихи, сега и ти го знаеш, хихи - смееше се тя. - Обаче има и още една разлика. Мистър Бог познава всички неща и всички хора отвътре. А ние ги познаваме само отвън. Затова не можем да говорим отвън за Мистър Бог. Това не е правилно.
Така продължи още четвърт час. Още аргументи, още обяснения. След това ме целуна по носа и каза:
- Не е ли страхотно? Помниш ли книгата за 4те измерения...?
- Да, защо?
- Хихи, сега знам, къде е четвъртото измерение. То е вътре в мен.
Чашата преля. Събрах си целия авторитет и я заплаших:
- Стига толкова. Късно е. Лягай си. Ако не заспиш мигновено, ще те напердаша.
Тя заквича, погледна ме и се ухили. След това се настани в прегръдките ми.
- Ти никога не правиш такива неща - каза, докато заспиваше.”
― Fynn, quote from Mister God, This is Anna

“But if you were Charlotte, and you had been feeling that life was some cosmic joke that had no punchline, and in the space of a moment you had gone from being Charlotte-without-a-kitten to being Charlotte-with-a-kitten, you too would have found it nothing short of remarkable.”
― Anne Ursu, quote from The Shadow Thieves

“The hood made me realise that crime succeeds because crime does the one thing the government doesn’t do: crime cares. Crime is grassroots. Crime looks for the young kids who need support and a lifting hand. Crime offers internship programmes and part-time jobs and opportunities for advancement. Crime gets involved in the community. Crime doesn’t discriminate.”
― Trevor Noah, quote from Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood

“Without pandering to your presumed desire to identify with the hero of a story, they made you feel that what mattered to the writer had consequence for you, too.”
― Tobias Wolff, quote from Old School

“Occasionally, especially at celebratory times, the whole gang of us would launch into a spontaneous mental game. For example, my mother used to send me to the back porch (a room containing no furniture but a simply incredible mass of Stuff) to get flour for holiday cakes or pies. I often returned to the kitchen, cringing with disgust, to announce that the flour was full of worms. No matter how sick this made me, I knew it wuoldn't bother my mother. She always just sifted the worms out, saying that even if she missed a few and they got into the food, they would simply be an excellent source of protein. Just as we were all beginning to feel thoroughly downtrodden, my father would save the day. "Everyone come up with a literary reference about worms!" he would shout.”
― Martha N. Beck, quote from Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic

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